Priceline using RUM
February 25, 2014
Priceline Pharmacy is using
the Return Unwanted Medicines
(RUM) project for its drug disposal
program launched last Nov (PD Fri).
In a release, the group said it had
introduced a new environmental
initiative that allowed customers to
take unwanted medication to their
local pharmacies for disposal.
However the photo used showed
RUM bins, available to every
pharmacy in Australia through
funding from the Department of
Health, RUM project manager
Simon Appel said.
This project was launched in July
1998, with disposal bins supplied
via pharmacy wholesalers, where
they are collected and their
contents destroyed by RUM.
Appel said while RUM was
grateful Priceline was promoting
the concept of safe disposal of
unwanted medication, it would
have been more appropriate if the
group had indicated the disposal
was using the RUM project.
Priceline Pharmacy confirmed
RUM provided API with the bins,
saying that Priceline had not
previously made use of these in
“any centrally managed way” and
had wanted to implement a larger
program across its stores.
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